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Google AI News: Week Ending 04/05/2024

April 6, 2024

Gemini

“I asked Gemini 1.5 Pro to analyze tech startup Rubrik’s S-1, the IPO document, and tell me if I should buy or sell. It read ~200k words, wrote a ~500 word memo in ~61s with NO hallucinations. Wall Street pays analysts $3000+ for a week of “specialized” work, and this cost $1.5! https://twitter.com/deedydas/status/1775886093554180109

“Google will update TOS introduce pay-as-you-go pricing for the Gemini API on May 2nd. https://twitter.com/kristileilani/status/1774959726322917530?s=46

Reddit – https://i.redd.it/o2appsoeyasc1.png – https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fi.redd.it%2Fo2appsoeyasc1.png%3Futm_source%3Dainews%26utm_medium%3Demail%26utm_campaign%3Dainews-cohere-command-r-anthropic-claude-tool-use

Genie

“Our new AI model Genie can create playable worlds in the style of 2D platformers – all from a single image prompt, sketch or text description. ✏️ As a foundation world model, Genie could also help us train AI agents. Here’s how. ↓ https://twitter.com/GoogleDeepMind/status/1775162077696360804

DeepMind

“Delighted and honoured to receive a Knighthood for services to AI. It’s been an incredible journey so far building @GoogleDeepMind over the past 15 years, helping accelerate the field and grow the UK & global AI ecosystems. Thanks to everyone who helped make this dream possible!” / X – https://twitter.com/demishassabis/status/1773421805929202165?s=20

“Great new work from our team and colleagues at @GoogleDeepMind! On the Massive Text Embedding Benchmark (MTEB), Gecko is the strongest model to fit under 768-dim. Try it on @googlecloud. Use it for RAG, retrieval, vector databases, etc.” / X – https://twitter.com/kelvin_guu/status/1774855490687918561

Other Google News

“Google presents Gecko Versatile Text Embeddings Distilled from Large Language Models Gecko with 768 emb dim competes with 7x larger models and 5x higher dimensional embeddings https://twitter.com/arankomatsuzaki/status/1774611474364739742

Google might make SGE paid, not working on ad-free Search – https://9to5google.com/2024/04/03/google-ad-free-search/

Google to Fight Cookie Hijacking With Encryption Keys for Chrome Browser | PCMag – https://www.pcmag.com/news/google-to-fight-cookie-hijacking-with-encryption-keys-for-chrome-browser

Google looks to AI paywall option, claims report – https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68727857

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AI News #27: Week Ending 04/05/2024 with Executive Summary and Top 48 Links

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